Dystopia - The Nerd Reich

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Trump’s (Anti)'Freedom Cities' and Network State Tech Dystopia

It's an idea straight out of the Network State playbook.

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'Bursts of authoritarianism'

The United States is currently evolving into a Network State, says a military analyst who writes regularly on the subject.

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Tech Elites vs. Government: Katherine Boyle’s Strange Speech

The latest attempt by tech to adopt Republican talking points and pander to ultra-religious conservatives.

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The Sovereign Individual: Radical Bible of Tech's 'Cognitive Elite'

How a 1997 Book Predicted Tech’s War on Democracy

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'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”

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Podcast: The 'Tech Coup' with Marietje Schaake

This piece has been cross-posted at the FrameLab newsletter, which I co-founded with Dr. George Lakoff. Apologies to the handful of you who subscribe there as well. If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, tech moguls like Elon Musk will capture an unprecedented amount of power. Trump has even suggested

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With J.D. Vance on Trump ticket, the Nerd Reich goes national

The Nerd Reich has their man in Washington

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California Forever's biggest PR problem may be its CEO

Jan Sramek has a talent for saying disastrous things